Garrett t25 turbo

[patstack]

I have a plain ol 09 Mazda 3 hatch and was seeing people with these garrett turbos. I really want to dress up my engine and it seems this turbo is in high regard. Any thoughts on these and anyone know where I can get a good deal?

 

[Bmies]

your going to need a full turbo kit... not just a turbo, before you go doing anything i would say sit back and do research, and when you think you know enough. learn a lot more! a turbo is a difficult thing to get right on a car. But there are some places that make turbo kits for the 2.3l, so google it. i believe tri-point makes a kit that will get you some really good power numbers, and look good while doing it. Best of luck to you

 

[infamouszoltan]

i would absolutely do your research, i thought i did my research but i was wrong. i put a kit on my car but even after a year I'm still not tuned. i do have the 2.0L but still... Definitely do your research and best of luck!!

 

[Bmies]

I wish they would find something for us. I'm tired of having a 2slow

 

[patstack]

I figured a turbo would get me the kinda power i wanted. Can i get similar power without it?

 

[adumbrille]

yeah if you wanna spend about 10k doing an engine build

 

[Bmies]

research... thats what you need to do. Look into doing full bolt ons. And cams. then youll be at about max, any further and youll need pistons and more...

 

[dgross7]

Definitely do your research, it is far more complicated than "throwing a turbo on"

 

[phunky.buddha]

No need for a kit if you understand how a turbocharger works- build your own setup and learn to tune it.

 

[Bmies]

while self tuning is all good and dandy, There is currently very few programs that will allow you to tune a 2.0, the only one i know of is MazdaEdit. And it runs at about 800$. And yes if you know enough you can build a turbo kit. But if the pieces arnt matched well, you could end up blowing it to pieces. Much easier to just get a kit and then upgrade from there.

 

[phunky.buddha]

I guess I consider it easy... but I've been doing this over a decade and have a dyno at my disposal whenever I want to use it.

MazdaEdit? Never heard of it- haven't done any tuning on Mazdas yet. I'll have to look it up. I was thinking more along the lines of the AEM FIC. It's about $400, and is designed specifically to lay custom fuel/timing maps (retard only) on top of the OEM maps once positive boost comes online. $800 isn't too much of a stretch past that if you get full programmability. Never skimp on tuning.